Word: fanaticism
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*As any baseball fanatic knows, the best reception late at night is available only in an automobile.
But the three-room display offers something for even the poor fanatic. It provides the opportunity to examine the program, and the ticket stub from the game where Yaz got his 3000th hit.
"Mother" Teresa is a fanatic whose activities are actually harmful to the poverty-stricken society in which she works. Repeating medieval ideas about human-sexuality, she opposes birth control and abortion--the only possible ways of reducing the overpopulation responsible for much of India's devastating poverty. She uses her...
And Ted has always been the definitive sports fanatic. A devoted Red Sox follower, he named his cat "Butch" in honor of Butch Hobson, his favorite player.
...firm, dedicated, unyielding and irrevocably committed to a policy of tight money, regardless of the difficulties and hardships that are imposed on a large segment of our population. Volcker's approach can also be called intransigent and obstinate, which are synonymous with fanatic. In the course of history, fanaticism has never resulted in anything other than distress, frustration and misery...